The Blazing World

2021
TV-MA
1h 41m

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4.4/10

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Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman (Carlson Young) returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Through an epic journey down the darkest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge

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Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may stil... Read allDecades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.

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IMDb RATING

4.4/10

809

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

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6Tweetienator

Dark Trippy Wonderland

I like The Blazing World - a dark fantasy journey with some fine moments and some well crafted and composed visuals. The story for sure got some weak spots too, but anyway, this one I recommend to all those souls who like their dish sometimes served with unusual spices.

9JasonMcFiggins

A mesmerizing and emotional movie.

THE BLAZING WORLD is the journey of one woman to reclaim her past and face her devastating depression from a childhood trauma, all presented as a dark fairy tale. Think Nicolas Winding Refn directing a script from David Lynch inspired by Lewis Carroll. First time filmmaker Carlson Young uses dazzling, darkly neon, and twisted visuals to tell this story, and her striking vision puts her great talent on full display. Dermot Mulroney impresses and Udo Kier is damn creepy. Crushing and gorgeous to watch with an utterly haunting score, the film is a mesmerizing, emotional experience you won't soon forget. Bravo Carlson Young!

Gordon-11

Fragmented and confusing

The story is weird, and doesn't make much sense. The first half is too long, and the second half is too short. However, the ending doesn't make sense, and is very confusing. Overall, the film is slow, fragmented and confusing.

4chilversedward

Confusing but stylish enough

Not sure what this film thought it was trying to portray. I sure as hell didn't get any sense of what this film was about. That isn't always a bad thing it's just this film annoyed because of it as felt for a first time directing that Carlson has some real directing talent. I'm sure some sort of message was meant to be portrayed, I just found the end feeling I was left with was frustrating. It was pleasing to the eye and some scenes were quite well done, the music was good too. I've no doubt that Carlson will be making some very good films in the future.

3steamolekm

Please don't.

Badly acted, awkward, obnoxious, terrible CGI, rips off Paths Labyrinth but gets nowhere close to it. Some stuff is great like the lighting on the scenes and some of the shots look really great, however its not worth watching because of this. I would say it was a great idea bad execution but i cant even say that if Young just rips off Guillermo del Toro.

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In a 2021 interview with Discussing Film, Carlson Young spoke about the use of color in the film: "In terms of the Technicolor aspect, I was really interested in correlating the color to the chakra that she's moving through. The red is the root chakra, and she's got a lot of problems with the root chakra and the home, so I wanted to make each color really mean something. I obviously have tons of influences here in this film, but I wanted them to mean something real. With the green hallway and the red orb, the green is the heart chakra and the red is [her] touching the root of her problem, which is the familial trauma."